Derby

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Roller Derby Fresh Meat, Week 2 (for the three people who care, and for my own records):

Did not cry. Did not puke. Right leg seized up three times in that "oh crap, that's the bursitis" way that means that I have got to go and rest for a few minutes and until I do so nothing is going to make that leg a) hold my weight b) bend c) stop burning as if it were on fire.

My new motto is "I will fall when I have no other choice, and not one second before".

On the bright side, I'm, um, getting better at skating on only my left foot?

Went for pho after and ate it very cautiously. I'm not kidding about the puking: that level of pushing my limits plus leg pain plus the shock of falling a lot = rebellious abdominals and an overwhelming urge to hurl.

Carried my own gear up the stairs and spread it to dry. (Seriously, last week fairestcat carried my gear bag upstairs for me after practice and random laid all my gear out to dry and air because a) my spouses are the awesomest and b) ... I may have whimpered when I tried to grab my gear bag out of the car.

Also last week was Jack, Cola, and Percoset in the tub and this week is Tramadol and Gin in bed. So that's an improvement. (Yes, I know that's dangerous. I have a chronic, incurable, pain-causing condition. My physician knows I do this sort of thing occasionally, and she quite frankly prefers it to having me use the strength of opioid I'd need without the booze so PLEASE DO NOT LECTURE ME. As one of the Vorkosigan siblings says in Mirror Dance or thereabouts, I am a PROFESSIONAL of pain.

Things to work on when I am fresh and off skates so that I will become able to do them at the end of the practice without flopping like a carp: Planks. Planks with leg work. Pushups. Standing on one leg. Squats on one leg. Leg lifts.

Things to work on whenever I get some free time on skates: footwork. Footwork. Footwork. More footwork. Getting up from a fall or single or double knee-stop or a baseball slide faster. Transitions. Environmental awareness. Jumps.

Comments

[leecetheartist]

Rob and I would love to come and watch Roller Derby when people we know are going to be there some time, how does one go about this? There are two clubs in Perth? Is there cross pollination or don't they mix? Which one do you go to or do you go to both?

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I'm skating with Rideau Valley Roller Girls: there's a
"Home" (they make an effort to move around the area covered) game schedule on their site.

If you want to come for free, we are chronically short of volunteers!

[leecetheartist]

I must have mixed you up with other people I know in Perth who roller derby! We're very unlikely to visit, alas!

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*sad* We do have team members in Perth, so I don't know if they're the ones you know.

Also, HOW DID I NOT KNOW that you lived in Perth?

We go through there semi-regularly en route to Toronto. There should be socialising!

As far as cross-pollination, I think there is a fair bit.

Currently a) Fresh Meat + NSOing for RVRG is the only thing ever in my world, cause Fresh Meat is completely kicking my ass, physically and mentally, plus RVRG are the ones taking on the hassle and expense of teaching me to skate and ref, so I feel like they're going to be entitled to all of my volunteering time and energy for awhile, but I'm hoping/planning to branch out and officiate for whoever needs me, later on.

[leecetheartist]

Er, Perth, Western Australia?

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... Perth, Ontario.

That explains why I didn't think of you as local, anyway :-)